Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Chandelier
Alternate Title:
Lustre
Image View:
Overall view, from below
Creator:
Claudie Gagnon (Canadian artist, born 1964)
Location:
repository: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec, Québec, Canada) 2009.88
Location Note:
National Battlefields Park; 179 Grande Allée Ouest; Pierre Lassonde Pavilion
GPS:
46.801106-71.225064
Date:
1998 (creation); recreated 2008 (other)
Cultural Context:
Canadian
Style Period:
Twenty-first century
Work Type 1:
installation (visual work)
Work Type 2:
lighting fixture
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
glass; metal; nylon and halogen lighting
Technique:
assemblage (sculpture technique); construction (assembling)
Measurements:
170 cm (height) x 115 cm (diameter)
Subjects:
contemporary (1960 to present); decorative arts; found sculpture
Description:
Claudie Gagnon was born in Montreal in 1964. Self-taught, she got involved in artist-run centers at the beginning of her career, and was a founding member of L’Oeil de Poisson in Québec City in 1985. Working midway between performance art and art installation, the artist is just as known for her "living paintings" as for her sculptures. Gagnon develops her artwork from objects she finds especially in secondhand shops. She diverts the primary function of ordinary objects, preferring a universe parallel to reality. (Source: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec [website]; www.mnbaq.org/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-GAGNON-CH-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Chandelier